FORTY-three-year-old Ronald Sanders (no address given), a mining camp cook who had been previously remanded to prison on a fraudulent conversion charge, was fined $75,000 with an alternative of six months’ imprisonment when he re-appeared yesterday before Georgetown Magistrate Judy Latchman and changed his plea.

Sanders had made his first appearance on August 17 in front of Magistrate Ann McLennan, and pleaded not guilty to the offence, particulars of which said that on July 29, with intent to defraud, he obtained the sum of $30,000 by falsely pretending to purchase a Blackberry cellular phone at Bourda Market for Terry Rabilall.
Yesterday, when the other magistrate asked Sanders if he wanted to change his plea, he admitted to having committed the crime.